>>55033254>Gameboy games weren't played on CRTsThere's this thing called Super Gameboy and plenty of people had it
Many games even had custom borders for it.
>Nobody owned it back thenHuge amounts of people actually just rented it from Blockbuster with the transfer pack. You didn't need to own it. This was very common back then, just like with Pokemon Snap because you could print out your pics in the store.